A ballot for a single member's bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn:
- Crimes (Theft by Employer) Amendment Bill (Ibrahim Omer)
The bill would make it a crime to deliberately fail to pay money owed as part of an employment relationship. Sadly, Labour being Labour, the penalties are weak. An employee stealing from their employer can get seven years, but Labour will only hand out one year to employers who deliberately rob their employees, despite the amount of money involved almost always being far higher. Which tells us something about who and what they value - and it isn't the people they name themselves after.
There were 69 bills in the ballot today.
